image creditThe Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a colourful event held over a nine-day period in late September/early October. The festival celebrates the Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help obtain good health and peace of mind.
Warning: Do not click the link if you are at all squeamish. If you are, it would be safer for you to proceed no further. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is not for the faint hearted. Every year the island in Southern Thailand attracts thousands to witness the unusual - not to mention painful - religious rites performed there.
(via Robert-John)
2 comment(s):
I wasn't going to click on the link, but thought to myself, Phuket, I wanna see. Isn't this the same nation of people that decorate childrens toys with lead based paint? Not to mention numerous other recent product recalls. I think I'll stick with meat.
Hi, I have been living here in Phuket for the last 10 years and have been blogging about Phuket since 2006 - firstly... Wizard, Phuket is in Thailand, not China.. Secondly - the Vegetarian festival is my favourite thing in Phuket - please do have a look at my photos from last years festival:
Phuket Vegetarian Festival Photos 2009
And again, the faint hearted may wish to not click on the link.
Cheers!
Jamie
Phuket
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